Setting aside the low-volume super-expensive LFA, Lexus has a spotty history at best when it comes to producing exciting cars. Even the company's halo models have tended toward opulent 4-door luxury rather than something like Acura's NSX. Luckily, the basic layout of the Lexus SC, GS, and LS lines lend themselves to modification, alteration, and (in today's case) frankenstein. . .ation.

The basic architecture for the GS300 wasn't really bad. Front-engine, rear wheel drive, and a decent for its day 3.0-liter inline 6-cylinder engine. In America, it featured the 2JZ-GE, which was the 220 horsepower ugly duckling to the fast and furious 2JZ-GTE.

If you fell asleep while I was describing the lump of slightly-shapen clay that is the GS, you are forgiven. But wake up! Otherwise, you might open your eyes to a nightmare of confusing noise. This GS isn't stock.

It doesn't even remember what stock looked like.

Some maniacs in the land of McLaren (that's New Zealand by the way) stuffed not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 rotors in the place of the lethargic 6. Then, because that wasn't enough in a land where big-block powered Can-Am cars seems sane, they added some turbocharging and a bit of nitrous.